Union of Socialists
Union of Socialists Unione dei Socialisti | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Ivan Matteo Lombardo |
| Founded | 8 February 1948 |
| Dissolved | 31 January 1949 |
| Split from | Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity |
| Merged into | Unitary Socialist Party |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Socialist Unity |
The Union of Socialists (Italian: Unione dei Socialisti, UdS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
The party was founded in February 1948 by Ivan Matteo Lombardo, former leader of the Italian Socialist Party.[1]
The party participated in the 1948 general election along with the Italian Socialist Workers' Party (PSLI) as Socialist Unity. In the 1948 election, Socialist Unity received 7.1% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies, gaining 33 seats. However, out of them solely Ivan Matteo Lombardo and Piero Calamandrei were members of the Union of Socialists.[2]
In January 1949 the party merged with the PSLI, which itself later became the Italian Democratic Socialist Party in 1951.
References
- ^ Costanza Chimirri (2013). Tre amici tra la Sardegna e Ferrara: Le lettere di Mario Pinna a Giuseppe Dessí e Claudio Varese. Firenze University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-88-6655-477-6.
- ^ John Foot (2014). Modern Italy. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-137-04192-0.
